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Latin
Noun
foenus n (genitive foenoris); third declension
- Alternative form of faenus
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “foenus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “foenus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin